Nothing Grows in the Desert
Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in desert plants, renewable energy | 2 Comments »The desert is a barren wasteland. The desert is unproductive. There's nothing there. We've all heard these statements before, but those of us who have come to know and love the desert realize just how wrong they are. The reality: The desert teems with life, ...
Anza-Borrego Wildflowers 2009
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 Posted in Anza-Borrego, desert plants | 1 Comment »Occasionally we need to take a break from activism and get out and smell the flowers. Last Saturday, I took a hike from Grapevine Canyon, up Grapevine Mountain and back down Bitter Creek. Brittle bush was probably the most abundant ...
54th DPC Annual Meeting
Thursday, September 11th, 2008 Posted in Desert Events | 1 Comment »We hope you'll join us at DPC's 54th Annual Meeting, to be held this year at the 29 Palms Inn in Twentynine Palms, California, close to Joshua Tree National Park. We'll have naturalist-led walks, three great speakers and a good ...
Desert Plants and Off-Road Vehicles
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in desert plants, off-road vehicles | 1 Comment »Here's an excerpt from Terry Weiner's conservation column in the upcoming El Paisano. Join DPC today to receive your own copy of El Paisano in the mail, or read it online at our website. The Mojave and Colorado deserts saw quite ...
Off-Roading Ban in Sonoran Desert
Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Anza-Borrego, off-road vehicles | Comments OffThe Arizona Republic reported on May 13 that the Bureau of Land Management will ban off-road vehicles on 55,000 acres of the Sonoran Desert National Monument for up to two years or more. Violators of the ban could face a ...
Desert Bloom Still Going
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Nature Matters, desert plants | 3 Comments »UPDATE Here are a few flower photos Gidon Singer took on his hike from the Lagunas to Scissors Crossing, on his way to the May 12 Sunrise Powerlink hearings in Borrego Springs. And it's not just flowers that are out this ...
Should we clearcut forests to install solar farms?
Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in desert plants, renewable energy | 1 Comment »Of course not. In addition to all their other values, forests act as carbon sinks. Yet according to a study reported in Nature Reports: Climate Change, deserts may store as much carbon as some temperate forests. The carbon is stored not ...
Why Protect the Desert?
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Art & Nature, Sunrise Powerlink | 3 Comments »The Sunrise Powerlink would run at the base of the distant mountains in this photo, altering the experience of hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail in the San Felipe Hills. "The desert's a good place for the Sunrise Powerlink -- ...
New Algodones/Imperial Sand Dunes Planning Process
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Public Lands, desert plants, off-road vehicles | Comments OffThe Algodones Dunes, photo by Andrew Harvey. The beautiful Algodones Dunes lie on the eastern edge of Imperial Valley. Besides being vast and magnificent, they contain a number of plants and animals that live nowhere else in the world, including the ...
California Desert Conservation Area Left Out of National Landscape Conservation Act
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in Desert Politics, Public Lands | Comments OffAfton Canyon, just one of the many spots in the California desert left out of today's passage of the National Landscape Conservation Act. Two hours ago, the United States House of Representatives passed the National Landscape Conservation System Act. This is good news ...
